Cervical erosion is familiar to many women not by hearsay. Statistics confirm that the disease at least once in a lifetime encounter every second lady, located in the childbearing age. Erosion is the occurrence of cervical epithelium at the wound. Most patients with this pathology does not manifest itself by any symptoms and is found during a routine inspection at the gynecologist.

Occasionally women who have been diagnosed with cervical erosion, feel discomfort during sexual intercourse and complain periodically arise weak nagging pain in the abdomen. Rank on the surface of the cervix is ​​healing itself, and rarely, if left untreated, may turn into cancer. That is why it is important to timely detect and treat this disease.

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Indications for cauterization: the beginning of the operation

Moxibustion cervical erosion is now considered the most effective treatment for this common female ailment. But it is only possible if a woman has in addition to erosion revealed no associated pathologies. Before you assign his patient cauterization, the doctor has to examine her vagina and cervix using a colposcope device, as well as to take a woman tests for biopsy and cytology. Cauterization procedure is possible in the event that the cervical canal, the patient would be in a normal condition and it will not be revealed serious diseases such as dysplasia, in disrepair or cervical cancer.

Women who were found pathological processes in the cervix are often concerned with the question of how to cauterize erosion. Cauterization procedure is carried out in antenatal clinics, it is now carried out in private clinics. The patient during surgery is located in the gynecological chair and is in exactly the same position as in the gynecological examination. The doctor puts into her vagina a special expander, with which you can see the entire cervix. After cleansing swab female genitals gynecologist examines the cervix using a colposcope with her and discovers defects that need to be cauterized. After examining the cervix doctor makes a woman anesthesia and begins operation.

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Getting rid of the erosion of electrocution

From all existing treatments for this disease the oldest and most accessible is diathermocoagulation or moxibustion, pathology, using high-frequency current.

The method, like this one, used in the XVIII century. Then the doctors used for cauterizing instrument that resembles a soldering iron. Today, little has changed. Apparatus for diathermocoagulation have any prenatal, so this type of treatment is most often prescribe their patients to gynecologists. Electric shock doctors cauterize erosion, and then in its place appears the wound, which over time is covered by a healthy epithelium. It happens that one procedure can not fully cope with the pathology, in this case the woman is assigned a second operation.

Moxibustion cervical erosion current is conducted in the second half of the menstrual cycle. The procedure lasts about a quarter of an hour. A few hours after the women were allowed to go home. During the operation, an electric current does not just land with the pathology, but also a healthy epithelium around him. Rana, formed as a result diathermocoagulation may heal up to 2 months. All this time the patient is contraindicated sexual activity. A woman must abide by all rules of hygiene, avoid alcohol and cigarettes, avoid heavy lifting. In order to cauterize the wound after the shock has healed quickly, doctors prescribe their patients more medication.

In cauterize erosion electrocution has many negative sides. The process itself is very painful and is done under local and sometimes general, anesthesia. After diathermocoagulation a woman for a month can go clear or bloody discharge from the vagina, appear back pain, disturbed general weakness. As a result, current moxibustion on cervical mucus formed scars, which in the future may make it impossible to complete disclosure when labor. Because of this method diathermocoagulation contraindicated in young nulliparous women. The negative consequences of this method of treatment - a high risk of bleeding and the possibility of developing cervical endometriosis. At cervical erosion gives cauterization current efficiency of 92%. Relapses of the disease occur in 3-14% of cases.

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Moxibustion with liquid nitrogen

Some antenatal clinics began to gradually give up the painful and unsafe treatment erosion of high frequency current, replacing it with a more secure cryosurgery, in which liquid nitrogen pathology sear. This process is more like freeze - wound on the surface of the epithelium is frozen, after which it shall not remain even scarring. Cryodestruction acceptable conduct for women of all ages, including young and nulliparous women. Moxibustion nitrogen is not prescribed to patients who have had a strong discontinuities or other deformation of the cervix. The procedure is suitable for the treatment of small erosions (diameter up to 3 cm), the removal of larger areas with pathologies produced by other methods.

Moxibustion cervical erosion nitrogen usually done without anesthesia. However, this treatment was not entirely painless - woman during surgery may feel strong cramping in the uterus. Cryodestruction produced in the first days after the end of menstruation. The risk of severe bleeding during and after the procedure exists but is minimal. After this kind of cauterize the majority of women can be observed for some time gidrorreya - copious clear discharge from the vagina. To restore the entire cervical mucus of women who underwent cryotherapy, forbidden to have sex at least monthly thereafter. The effectiveness of the method - 90%, one in ten women can not remove erosion after one treatment and cryotherapy have to repeat again.
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Laser Processing of erosions

In most countries of the world by getting rid of cervical erosion by laser destruction. Moxibustion by laser dot allows to influence the pathology without jeopardizing a healthy epithelium. Treatment of cervical erosion by laser has an efficiency of 98%, relapses are rare. If cryotherapy is allowed only in the presence of small lesions, the laser burning is allowed in the treatment of extensive erosions (3 cm or more). The method is used to treat both parous and nulliparous patients, after the remains of scars.

Laser destruction is performed under local anesthesia - doctor with a syringe with a very fine needle cut away the cervix anesthetics. Often after cauterization of bleeding occur in women, so for a quick recovery of the mucous experts recommend patients to give up a month from sexual intercourse or use tampons. In order to reduce the risk of infection for women is prohibited swimming pool and sauna, swim in the rivers, and take a bath. Laser destruction refers to the gentle method of treatment of cervical erosion, but the equipment for carrying out this operation is today mainly in private clinics.

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Airwaves - a new word in the treatment of erosion

Among the new methods of erosion control radio wave is a method of treatment of this disease. In Russia, moxibustion erosion radio waves almost done, as this operation requires a special unit of the US production "Surgitron." Radio waves that produces the device are processed tissue damaged by erosion of the epithelium. The advantage of the method is painless and short-term recovery of the cells of the cervix. The operation is performed without concomitant bleeding and injury to the healthy epithelium, which is located next door to the pathology.

In diseases of the cervix treated with radio waves does not make wounds in scars, so the method is shown to all women of childbearing age. Contraindications to the use of radio wave surgery - women having a pacemaker, inflammation of the pelvic organs. In all other cases, the radio waves are considered safe are not able to bring harm to the female body.

After the procedure, from the woman's vagina during a short period may extend meager allocation with blood. Sometimes, patients complaints of pain resembling menstrual. However, these symptoms disappear within days after removal of the erosion of the radio waves. A woman should abstain from sexual intimacy 10 days, during which the endometrium is to fully recover. In addition to erosion cauterization apparatus "Surgitron" is used for the treatment of other diseases of the cervix. Radiowave treatment today is considered the most effective and safe method. Its only drawback - the high cost.

The question of which method of cauterization of cervical erosion appoint a woman decides her doctor.
At the same time it takes into account the age of his patient, her desire to have a child in the future, that it has co-morbidities. It is important that a woman is not pulled from the treatment of their disease, not to self-medicate and remember that timely moxibustion can save her from a very terrible disease - cancer of the cervix.